Read the entire list!-----Overheard on the interwebs: The year is 1949....

The year is 1949-the Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy.  - Rick Kirschner

• The year is 1949. - Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came...
• The year is 1956. - Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf...
• The year is 1966. - A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with...
• The year is 1979. - Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains...